D-FW dove leases available for rent: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has 38,703 acres of private property leased for its public dove hunting program this season. There are 24 public dove leases in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Adults must buy a $48 annual public hunting permit. Kids 16 and younger hunt for free when they accompany a permitted adult. Kelly Edmiston, TPWD’s program leader for public hunting, said some of the Collin County dove leases were pretty good last year, but the quality of hunting on a particular property changes from year to year.

“Many of our dove fields allow for preseason scouting one week prior to hunting season,” Edmiston said. “Hunters should check the legal game box of a public hunting area to make sure scouting is allowed.”

App provides access to fish and game laws: If you want Texas fish and game laws handy at all times, there’s an app for that.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Outdoor Annual is available for free download on IOS and Android platforms. The app enables access to the laws without being connected to the Internet.

Download the app at txoutdoorannual.com/app or search the iTunes App Store, Amazon AppStore or Google Play for Outdoor Annual — Texas Hunting and Fishing Regulations.

Safari Club expects to surpass record: The Dallas Safari Club drew a record 43,000 visitors to its four-day convention and expo at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center and Omni Hotel. Based on early registrations, club officials think the record will be surpassed in January 2015.

The 2014 convention netted more than $1 million for worldwide conservation causes. Details are at biggame.org.

Numbers tell story of quail hunt decline: Whether you believe that wild quail in Texas were decimated by eye worms or a lack of rainfall, the most telling statistic of the quail decline is the shocking parallel in the decline of quail hunters.

During the 1993-94 season, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimated 233,313 quail hunters spent more than 1.3 million hunter days afield and bagged roughly 5.7 million birds. By the 2012-13 season, an estimated 25,000 quail hunters spent less than 195,000 hunter days afield and took fewer than 100,000 birds.

CALENDAR:

MONDAY, SEPT. 1: Dove season begins in Texas North and Central Zones.

MONDAY, SEPT. 8: Monthly meeting of the Dallas Fly Fishers Club with a casual dinner and social hour at 6 p.m. followed by a program at 7 p.m. The meeting is at the Wyndam Hotel, 7800 Alpha Road, Dallas. The program by Rex Walker features fly line choices. The meeting is open to the public. Details at dffclub.shutterfly.com or call Richard Johnson at 469-877-0695.

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